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A Novel Andy Warhol (Paperback)
by Andy Warhol (Author) "ONDINE-You said (dial) that, that, if, if you pick, pick UP the Mayor's voice on the other end (dial, pause, dial-dial-dial), the Mayor's sister would..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (25 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802135536
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802135537
  • Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 13.9 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 984,756 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Created from audiotapes recorded in and around the Factory,"a" is an account of a day in the life of the famous group of artists, superstars, and addicts who made up Warhol's milieu. It begins with the fabulous Ondine popping several amphetamines and then follows its characters [who include, among others, Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed and Dorothy Dean] as they converse with inspired, speed-driven wit and cut swaths through the clubs, coffeeshops, hospitals and whorehouses of 1960s Manhattan.

"Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven, the vox populi of the Velvet Underground. . . . The characters of 'a' represent the bizarre new class, untermenschen prefigurations of the technological millenium." -- "The New York Review of Books"

"'a' documents glamour going down on the mores of the day. . . . [E]choes works of Gertrude Stein. . . . At the start of the book and to get things going, Ondine pops six blue Obetrols. He and Drella [aka Warhol] walk and taxi around town, are snubbed by Robert Rauschenberg, talk on the phone, cruise boys or talk about cruising boys. . . Important and very funny." -- Bruce Hainley, "Frieze," March/April 1998

"You really ought to own it." -- Esquire

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ONDINE-You said (dial) that, that, if, if you pick, pick UP the Mayor's voice on the other end (dial, pause, dial-dial-dial), the Mayor's sister would know us, be (busy-busy-busy). Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars In with the in crowd, 26 Oct 2007
But how far in do you want to be?

If you ever had a fantasy of hanging out at The Factory for a day, reading this may make you wish instead you were trapped watching reruns of Monday Night Football for 24 hours.

Well, maybe it's not that bad. I was able to read attentively for 150 pages before I started browsing which became little more than page-turning for the last 100 pages. Perhaps I'll go back and see if it grows on me.

I guess you had to be there, but I'm glad I wasn't. It seemed like it was horrifically boring. Small talk rarely gets this small. Some mention of sex, some of drugs, some perverse humor hardly covers the emptiness.

"12 hours of Ondine ... a novel?" Not for me. If I had to pick, I've have featured the more coherent Sugar Plum Fairy (SPF, present in the 2nd half of the book) not Ondine. But unless I were doing a doctoral dissertation on Warhol's Factory,l I would have avoided "a". Now that I have it and want to make the best of it, there is, admittedly, something absorbing for a while in the rantings.

The glossary by Victor Bockris provides some help about who was who and what seemed particularly important. You can probably start in on any page without much loss.

Another such experiment by someone of taping with a different cast of characters would be welcome. Based on "a", there does seem to be a value in doing a "novel" in this way: a lot depends of who and when you tape. Like novels, "a"'s conversations seem contrived, just contrived by a lot more people than a single novelist and that could be good. I wouldn't want to read a day's worth of tapes of the Osmond Family or of the board of General Motors, but there's got to be a group whose taping would lead to a better "novel" than "a".

Consider reading "a" if you are curious enough about the Warhol scene or about what a novel by tape recorder would be like or are just feeling whacked out enough.

Sugar Plum Fairy: "Making silkscreens and photographs and, do you consider that work? I mean does he get up in the morning and say, 'Mom, I have to get down to the office...'"
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